Ridiculous Prices On Real 3D Gadgets On Offer For Christmas (Read more...)

eDimensional is a hardware company that is focused on products that are appealing for people like us, who love 3D and virtual reality. This Christmas, they are lowering their prices so you can buy high quality products at a very cheap cost.

Here you are cheap hardware for watching your videos and games, and even the TV shows in REAL 3D. There's also a gamepad that senses your movements, perfect for immersion in 3D shooters.

I have selected some interesting products for you to check and think if you want one of them for Christmas gift, for you or someone else.

 3DPlus 2D to 3D DVD Software: This is a software, for use with the eDimensional Glasses, that allows you to convert normal DVD movies into real-time full screen 3D on the fly. That way you can watch any video or movie in real 3D. Cost: $39.95  Now $29.95

Wireless G-Pad Pro Motion Sensing Gamepad: The G-Pad Pro is the world's only motion sensing gamepad with built-in rumble.

 
In addition, it has all the features that you want to find in a gamepad. For PC, PS2, and PS3, with an adapter, available just for $2 more.
Cost: $39.95 Now $19.95

VirtualFX 3D TV Converter: Convert a standard 2D video image into a true, 3D rendering. What this means is that you can now watch virtually all of your favorite TV shows and sporting events, your entire collection of VHS and DVD movies, your entire library of home videos and play every video game you have ever owned - and do it ALL in real 3D.
Cost: $99.95  Now $79.95

There are other awesome products in eDimensional, but these are the items that are now a good opportunity for you to get a high tech gadget, and get an unique hardware that is really hard to find for the same price than a vulgar video card, a normal gamepad, or a cheap dvd player.

PS Home Enters Open Beta. Videos And Images. (Read more...)

PS Home is going to enter on open beta today December 11. This has been long awaited and announced because, for some, it may be the only competitor to Second Life that may take a big portion of the market.

There's already a photo group centered on PS Home in Flickr. It has been just launched and is administered by Annie OK, that is who created the virtual worlds timeline that is shown in our sidebar, thus being a recognized expert in virtual worlds.

Don't miss the official video of their homepage, but also have a look to the others that are here that will illustrate more aspects of this platform, like this:

How will PS Home impact the virtual worlds market? It will attract a huge portions of gamers, mostly those who own this console. This virtual world is highly focused on gaming.

The social services and gateways for virtual worlds should also consider adding support for PS Home.

I don't think that many people will buy the console just for playing Home. Just the opposite: many who own a PS console will buy a computer to see what other virtual worlds are out there, and get deeper in this universe.

So I don't think this will be negative for Second Life or others. Just like Second Life has supposed a re-birth of virtual worlds and has familiarized the masses with this concept, PS Home will attract a legion of users to other virtual worlds.

But as Richard Bartle said in his books, newcomers to a virtual world always compare it to the first one they played. If PS Home is as spectacular as it seems, the comparisons may be terrible for all the others, at least in the graphics and games part.

Let's see if they can also create and keep a community of users that lasts in time, goes beyond playing, and becomes those special second families that every virtual worlds user  belongs to.

JavaFX Architect Live On Second Life (Read more...)

Sun's Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Sun's Client Software will be interviewed by Jonathan Erickson, Editorial Director of Dr. Dobb's Journal in Second Life, live from Devoxx in Belgium.

The interview will be about JavaFX, the new platform for building rich internet applications with immersive media and content for desktop, browser and mobile platforms.

Photo by Peter Hellberg

As a Netbeans Community Partner, I am proud to tell you that NetBeans IDE is the official IDE for JavaFX development, and with version 6.5, Netbeans can integrate JavaFX, so you can use the editing features of Netbeans IDE to produce stunning applications. Download the JavaFX or the complete version of Netbeans IDE here.
The editor features a drag-and-drop palette to quickly add JavaFX objects with transformations, effects and animation. This IDE also comes with its own set of Building Blocks samples and the Beta version of the JavaFX Mobile Emulator, a mobile phone simulator.

This event will take place on :

Tuesday, December 9, 1 PM Pacific (SLT)
(Check our sidebar with time zones to see yours or use this time zone converter)

Where? Live, in Second Life, Sun Microsystems 1 and 2, Main Amphitheatre:
http://www.world2worlds.com/lb.php

And on the web:
http://developers.sun.com/events/secondlife/index.jsp

This event has been added to our Calendar of Worldwide 3D Events.
Source of this news: Kim Smith (Rissa Maidstone), Chief Operations Officer, Vice President of World2Worlds.

Tech Gadget: Exclusive Flip Mino HD Video Cameras (Read more...)

Flip Mino HD is the smallest HD video camera in the world. This means that this new gadget can record your favorite memories in high definition video that can be displayed in panoramic widescreen TV.

Flip Mino HD can record high definition video (HD) that is 1280x720 pixels, with an aspect ratio of 16:9. It's like what you see on Digital Television and cinema movies.
It is the smallest HD camcorder in the world, as it is only 3.94'' high, 1.97'' wide and 0.63'' deep, and weights only 3.3oz. 

The back of the device has buttons to replay and browse the videos, a built-in speaker and a LCD screen in which you can preview the videos.

This is a device that can be useful for many people:

• To create movies for personal or professional use, in High Definition format.
  
• To get high quality videos that can be directly uploaded to video services like YouTube and others.
  
• As an alternative of buying a video camera or a photo camera, as it is less expensive than most of them and in addition provides extra functions that make it more interesting for many of us.

Some of the designs by Emma Alvarez

You can record videos in low light conditions, as light sensitivity and black and white levels are adjusted automatically, so the quality of image is stunning.
The camera has also a microphone that records to MP4 (AAC). It can record up to 60 minutes to a memory of 4 Gigabytes and has an internal battery that lasts for 2 hours of continuous use, and turns itself off when not in use so it lasts much longer.

Some of the designs by Emma Alvarez

Flip Mino HD has a USB connector that is used to charge its battery and for communication with your computer. It also includes a software that will allow you to upload your videos to YouTube, AOL Video, MySpace, and other websites. You can also send videos by email, edit your creations, save snapshots of your video as a photo, add music, organize your videos... You can even make an entire movie with Flip Mino HD combining the videos that you recorded, adding titles, music and credits.

There's also a minor (and cheaper) version of Flip Mino HD called "Flip Mino" (without the HD), that produces VGA movies of lesser size (VGA 640 x 480). The advantages of this version is that the edition program has less requirements, and the battery lasts longer. Although the movies of the non-HD version are not so bright, the quality of the videos is also remarkable.

Some of the designs by Emma Alvarez

Now, if you find Flip Mino HD interesting, you can have it skinned with exclusive designs.
Emma Alvarez, worldwide known designer and digital artist, has released a new line of Flip Mino and Flip Mino HD devices. They are unique, beautified with designs that you can't find in any other place.
For the same price, you can get a camcorder that is different from all the others and has a visual appeal that stands out of the rest.

The ones you see illustrating this article are some of the designs available, but be sure to check the others on her  online store: Emma Alvarez Shop's Flip Mino Designs.

Three Galleries For Showing Your Web 3D Art (Read more...)

You can submit your Web 3D art to these galleries and get it promoted and showcased for all the world to see. Don't doubt that this is a great way of getting a good reputation as a Web 3D artist.

MixED, The Collective 3D Gallery: It is conceived as a collective 3D art gallery. It's collective because its aim is to show the woks of many worldbuilders in the VRML and X3D scene. Read the post about them.

Web3D Art: Web3Dart is hosted at the Web3D Conference supported by the Ministry of Art and Education, Vienna (Austria, Europe). It showcases and selects the most interesting works of art in 3D in the Web. You can submit your works too.

Cardiac Museum. One of the selected works.

There are works that go from the academic and learning to the artistic. It's a really worth seeing place to watch good works in interactive and immersive 3D.

Monolith[s], another selected work in Web 3D.

Cortona 3D Page Of The Week: Shows the best works done with Cortona VRML Client. If you work with this VRML client, you can send your best works and win the honor of being showcased as 3d page of the week here.